The US, terrorists, and hate groups

[skooooo]

http://english.pravda.ru/mailbox/22/101/399/14314_profiling.html

The US is adopting a policy of profiling - all though they officially deny it. Our policy, though, does not follow any logical pattern.

People with Moslem sounding names cannot fly a US airliner. Far too risky from a US perspective. Reminds me of the whole Japanese thing back in World War Two - if you were of Japanese descent, you were declared the enemy and actions were taken based upon the shape of ones eyes. We were very; very happy with that even though we knew we were in the wrong.

We weren't all that distressed at the guys running around with sheets over their heads lynching black youths in what was called "necktie parties". Heck, the KKK had a massive parade right in Washington, D.C. during the heady days of Freedom.

We did not have any problems with the Silver Shirts - the American Nazi Party waltzing down our streets, holding rallies with the Swastika flying next to the Start and Strips. A party endorsed by Hitler himself. After war broke out, America did not put people with German sounding names into detention camps and the Silver Shirts kept right on goose stepping.

Nobody was ever convicted in the lynchings that shaped America. We yawned and went off to read other articles more of our liking.

[AmyDeLune]

1. Actually...

there were Germans in the Japanese detention camps, just not a lot of them. This was according to my high school guidance counselor who spent several years of his childhood in such a camp.